Memento Park. Historical Nature of the XXth Century

  • Rodrigo Rieiro Park Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos ETSAM / Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ANRE.2013.v5.n1.42068
Keywords: allegory, ruin, Walter Benjamin, Budapest.

Abstract

This paper starts from a tour through Memento Park, a place in Budapest where the statues of the former communist leaders are stored today, to arrange a collection of pictures about other ruins of the recent past. The aim is to articulate specific paradoxes of visual montages with theoretical paradoxes of temporal montages, pretending to answer the questions: can the images from the recent past inform us about the material arrangements of the present?, could they activate us?

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Published
2013-05-13
How to Cite
Rieiro Park R. (2013). Memento Park. Historical Nature of the XXth Century. Ángulo Recto. Revista de estudios sobre la ciudad como espacio plural, 5(1), 65-85. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ANRE.2013.v5.n1.42068
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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2013)
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